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Hello! I think I have a bug happening when I enable any override in the Rendering Debugger.

If "Debug Display" is disabled, I get an error "undeclared identifier 'input' at line..." pointing to this line:


If "Debug Display" is enabled, I get both the previous error and the warning "Ignoring duplicate keyword line 'multi_compile _ DEBUG_DISPLAY'"

In both cases, the material turns pink when using the Rendering Debugger.

Amplify Editor 1.9.1.2
URP 13.1.8

I have another project also in URP 13.1.8, but with ASE 1.9.0.2, and this problem is not present there.

Thanks for the help!

 

Hello, I have a question, can I use this to make a shader for three.js ?
shader file in three.js looks like have different format with unity.
can I (and how to) use this to make a shader for three.js ?
thks

 

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to make my transparent water shader receive SSR.

I'm using HDRP 10.8.1 and Unity 2020.3. I have "Receive SSR Transparent" enabled in the shader both in ASE and in the material properties, but it seems to have no effect at all. No SSR. Transparent materials using the default HDRP Lit shader are able to receive SSR, so I know it's my Amplify shader and not an issue with my project settings.

I have noticed that when I tick the Receive SSR Transparent tickbox in ASE, a new output appears in the Master Node called Alpha Clip Threshold Depth Prepass. I'm sure the answer to my problem lies in this somehow, but there is no documentation or examples that I can find that show what to do with this.

Help is appreciated.

 

Hello,
I can't get terrain instancing to work with Amplify shaders in the URP anymore, using the last ASE version and Unity 2021.3.11f1.

I have a quite old ASE terrain shader that worked fine until it recently stopped showing baked GI informations when the Draw Instanced option is enabled in the Terrain settings.

I created a new Amplify shader using the last Lit template, enabled the Instanced Terrain option of the Output node and simply plugged a brown color in the Base Color port.
With the Draw Instanced disabled in the terrain's inspector it looks fine in the scene view, but when I enable the option, I get blinking squares like this and again, no visible lightmaps:

Draw Instanced OFF


Draw Instanced ON


Did I miss something or is this a bug ?

 

Hello,

I'm trying to create a way to display footprints when a light (flashlight) is shining on the area. I looked into the UV Light example, but it's not working as I need it to. I am currently using the footprint as a texture with alpha cutout placed on a quad. It kinda like a decal. Is there a better way to do this or a way to make changes to the UV Light Shader?



Thanks,

John

 

Hi,
i just discovered that in Unity 2022 with Shader Graph we can create a URP > Fullscreen Shader Graph, and with that we easily can do custom postprocessing effects. Is it possible to use a similar workflow with Amplify?

 

Can I change the mode of the terrain shader to specular instead of metallic? When I did that the terrain went white. I'm trying to make a custom terrain shader and I prefer having specular to reduce the awful white fresnel by imputing the albedo color of each tile in to it, this worked on a mesh. I'm not very familiar with making terrain shaders, perhaps there's something I'm missing. Basically I just changed the shader to specular haha.

 

Hello!

I'm trying to do a user clip plane but *only* when a multi_compile keyword is present. At the moment I have this:



Which works, but generates this code:

Code (CSharp):

1. void surf( Input i , inout SurfaceOutputStandard o )
2. {
3.     // ... other code ...
4.    
5.     float localIsClipped28 = IsClipped28( planeVector28 , worldPos28 , useWorldSpace28 );
6.     #ifdef PORTAL_CLIP_PLANE
7.         float staticSwitch8 = ( localIsClipped28 + 0.5 );
8.     #else
9.         float staticSwitch8 = 1.0;
10.     #endif
11.     clip( staticSwitch8 - _Cutoff );
12. }

As you can see, the 'clip' function is always executed, even though with PORTAL_CLIP_PLANE off, it will always pass.

How do I move all of this calculation so that it's all wrapped in the #ifdef / #endif, so there's zero overhead when it's off?

Thanks.

 

Faced the same issue. Looks like you can't toggle the clip() function with a keyword using ASE unless you create you own template or write your own code, which is what I ended up doing for the shader that needed such optimization.

You can plug the same Sampler State node in several Texture Samplers, this will lower the sampler register index.

 

Hello, I got a shader error "undeclared identifier" when trying to use custom expression



I don't know if the information I provided is enough? I would like to know how I should fix this bug.

Thanks!

 

Hey, is there any plans to add water template from Unity HDRP 14+?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/c...efinition@14.0/manual/master-stack-water.html

 

Hello, Im trying to make a custom fullscreen vignette effect in HDRP by converting the below standard shadergraph nodes to amplify, i tried doing this on my own but im missing something. How can i get a vignette effect in amplify?

 

Hello, why does the mesh become transparent when changing the position of the vertices via Local Vertex Offset?

 

Hello, I'm having trouble getting the Lerp node to work as expected. I'm trying to use a Voronoi Noise node to lerp between a shadow color and a highlight color. I was expecting to see an image similar to the previews in the Voronoi and Power nodes, but as a gradient from my ShadowColor and HighlightColor nodes. Instead I just see a single color output.


I get a similar result trying to use the remap node:


This same methodology seems to work in ShaderGraph, but I'm trying to create this shader for the Built-In Render Pipeline.



Is there something I'm missing about implementing this correctly? Thanks in advance for any help or pointers!

 

shadow not correct when using billboard

very easy shader with only a billboard node and a texture


as you can see,there will be an empty rect area in shadow map,once the light is far from object every thing will be correct

 

this is a sample that the light far from people, then the shadow has no clip

 

this pic is the rect clip area

 

Is there happening any support here ? Just Checking...

 

Hi Everyone,

I've been having trouble keeping track of all support channels. I'll do my best to reply to some of these questions as soon as I can. Note that I've been trying to focus as much time as I can on development in order to catch up on the backlog.

In the meantime, please direct any urgent bug reports to our support email ( support@amplify.pt ) and for tips, tricks or even basic functionality questions please hop on our community Discord ( https://discord.gg/vGvDU6Q3WR ).

Thank you.

 

Unity 2021.3.16f1
Amplify 1.9.1.2
Universal Render Pipe
---
Amplify Shader --> Universal --> Lit
Base Color RGBA
Alpha --> Base Color's Alpha
Alpha Clip Threshold = 0.5f
---
Static Geometry casting light map shadows
Single Texture : RGBA --> A = Opacity Stencil
---
I am having trouble getting static opaque geometry with an alpha clip to actually cast a stenciled shadow into the lightmap. Currently it casts a shadow of the entire card.

In previous versions my undocumented solution was that the Texture Sample's Property Name needed to be '_MainTex'

For what is it worth, Shader Graph still has this issue and the fix is the same, change Property Name to '_MainTex'

This no longer works in Amplify and the shadows cast into the light map are of the entire card, not a stencil of the alpha mask (a tree branch in this case.)

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

Hi Everyone, I'm trying to use a UV Set as a mask. Is there anyway to grab just the channel data? I know we can use the texture coord or vertex UV data but that seems to drag extra information I don't need with it

 

Hi @AmplifyCreations, we have found a bug in URP Deferred shading:

When we use an Amplify URP PBR/Lit shader, and we attach a Occlusion map to it, it does not show in the GBuffer.
This is important because effects like MF.SSGI or SSRR depend on this. If we switch back to good-old Unity's own Lit-shader, everything works just fine.

Can you help us out here?

In the screenshots below you see that the SSGI and SSRR aren't blocked out. The slight decrease in darkness is caused by the AO map working on the Albedo, not the reflections / GI.




In this screenshot, we just showcase the AO map to indicate that it's there



In this screenshot I simply draw the GBuffer occlusion pass directly to the screen like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. col = tex2D(_GBuffer1, i.uv).a;

The shader looks as follows:



Please help us out as we want to create stunning visuals in URP using ASE. This would help us a lot! Thanks

 

Hello, this is my first post on the unity forum! (and sorry for my english, it's not my native language ^^).

I'm new to ASE, and I'm trying to create a cloud shader with faded edges. I managed to do it (for the moment nothing very difficult) but only for a sphere.


When I try on a cloud model created with blender, the inner edges also become blurred and faded, which is not really the expected result since I want to fade only the edges of the model's shilouette ^^.


I understand that the problem probably comes from the fresnel node, but I am completely blocked at this level !

Do you have any suggestions to help me? Here is my graph :


Thanks in advance !

 

I'm trying to make a parallax shader to give in game images some depth and this is what I have so far.

This is an example I saw posted online, which is what I'm going for.

The lighter parts of my depth map texture should move more than the darker ones.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

 

@AmplifyCreations @Amplify_Support

Hi! Any thoughts on my previous bug report @AmplifyCreations @Amplify_Ricardo @Amplify_Support

I found a new one:
In the URP Decal.shader template, there is a statement that blocks the build process. So it works in editor, but we are no longer able to make builds because of it.

As you can see the half4 normalGI is not available outside the scope of DECAL_RECONSTRUCT_NORMAL, but it is being used outside of that scope regardless.



I will fix the decal error myself, please help me with my previous post.

 

@Amplify_Ricardo @AmplifyCreations @Amplify_Support: I fixed it like this. Would be nice if this included in your next update:

 

Hi, I think I found a bug in version 1.9.1.3. At some point, I got a shader compilation error. I narrowed it down to the PolarCoordinates node and inside that to the Tau Node. The node seems to generate the shader string using:

Code (CSharp):

1. private readonly string Tau = ( 2.0 * Mathf.PI ).ToString();

This lead to the output "6,28..." instead of "6.28..." because I am on a German OS setting and German language uses comma in decimal numbers.

Interestingly, the error only popped up now, although I used the PolarCoordinates node the whole time on the same computer.
Let my know if you need more info from me!

 

There are ambient occlusion ghosts for most transparency effects

Is there any way to solve this? I'm currently using HBAO

 

Anyone know a reason undo might not be working in the shader editor window? ctrl Z just starts undoing previous selections in unity instead of moving/undeleting nodes

 

It's one of the highlights ...

 

yes you can turn it back on in the preference section ase
but unity has some bugs discussed in other forums depending on unity version it may be unstable.

 

I was having broken shaders for a year now I was resaving and reimporting like crazy without result. Until finally I have found a video explaining how to upgrade the shaders.

Should the "Force Template Inline Properties" be enabled by default ?

 

Also is there a "Resave all shaders" option ?
Resaving all amplify shaders manually is a total pain.

 

The issue with the old shaders was due to Unity has removed and or changed some pass names however the meta from the old shader would not clear due to it thinking it had no changes. The force inline option will force the compiler to look at the new template first in order to clean out this meta.

Note after any inline issues are fixed from old shader the option for force inline should not be left turned on


about resaving all shaders ase has 2 ways you can do this

first is if you’re working with shader functions the function has an option to search dependances and then press save to compile every shader that function is found inside

the second is ASE has a batch and save tool found in the window dropdown tab under amplify editor you can use this to select a folder and it will find all the shaders inside or under it to be compiled an saved.

 

But is it dangerous or just slower ?

 

No its not dangerous

just that it will aways look at the template first rather than some custom setting you're trying to change. It's not really needed after your fixed an if left on may keep defaulting some settings back to template that you're trying to change on purpose for some custom work.

 

i was able to get UV light reveal working in decal from 14x an higher
if you have gestions you would be better to ask in the ase discord

 

Unity 2021.3.11f1
ASE 1.9.1.5

Template shaders that comes with ASE.
The Fabric one is the most problematic one.

 

i see what happen, some changes made are only applicable from api 13.1.8 an higher
for info only the reference is found in ShaderPassForward.hlsl for the changes in each api about this Lit subject

the fabric one was just overlooked nice find

 

Would it be possible for OmniDecal shader to respect the Decal Layers in HDRP ?
Also what are the limitations of omni decal in comparison with projectors ?

 

Can Ambient occlusion be added in a Built-in terrain shader with amplify? I couldn't find a way to do this. What I mean is, to make the mask map work in the built-in shader, not just URP, and HDRP. If not is there another way to do it?

 

I'm trying to create a "clipping plane" shader, which as of now it works, the thing is, I need 2 things:

1. "fill" the hole with a material or texture
2. get the cut area and cut the exact same shape of another Quad that holds a texture to fit the hole

Currently, my shader uses this to achieve the "clipping plane":


With Render Type being "Transparent"
And Cull mode turned Off

Working like this:


As I mentioned above, I need to fill that hole in the two ways mentioned.
Anyone has any idea how to achieve that with Amplify?

 

Today I attempted to create "mesh decal shader" using amplify shader.
Here is my simple triplanar decal shader (spherical projection).

The result is far from expected (left one inside red circle).
The right one is HDRP/Lit shader with exactly the same structure.

Right side of the picture is the shader structure I'm using.

 

decals use "decal projectors" to render on objects.
see Decal Projector | High Definition RP | 12.1.10 (unity3d.com)

also note decals use different UV transforms

#if (SHADERPASS == SHADERPASS_DBUFFER_PROJECTOR) || (SHADERPASS == SHADERPASS_FORWARD_EMISSIVE_PROJECTOR)

    float4x4 normalToWorld = UNITY_ACCESS_INSTANCED_PROP(Decal, _NormalToWorld);

    float2 scale = float2(normalToWorld[3][0], normalToWorld[3][1]);

    float2 offset = float2(normalToWorld[3][2], normalToWorld[3][3]);

    UV.xy = UV.xy * scale + offset;

#endif

return UV;

 

"Mesh decal" is a decal material put on a mesh instead of projector, this is a valid usage according to unity documentation.

 

interesting i was not aware of any decal that does not use a projector component.
do you have a link ?

 

The info is very scarce.
I had to experiment myself and indeed decal materials are working on a mesh.

It is mentioned almost in the beginning of:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.high-definition@14.0/manual/Decal.html

 

i suspect t issue in not rendering on the mesh correct ?
its triplanar UVs

for me what i did is made my own triplanar function so its all exposed to modify then improve with a swizzle
i have not try triplaner on decal yet but would suspect it needs the UV modification i posted above for Dbuffer

does the same setup you posted also give the same results with ase HD/Lit template on a cube?

 

The cube on the right on my screenshot is the HDRP/Lit shader with identical graph, and it is working correctly.
If it's what you had in mind.

 

if I have got a "amplify shader function" with multiple outputs and this outputs are connected to "static switch" node will the content inside function be optimized with respect to "static switch " state ?
Or all operations inside function are going to be run ?